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The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, Oh, what's hot! I don't need to.
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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is was a very apt metaphor for making music - or any creative act, really. We all start in the dark and have to create light.
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What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.
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It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that! So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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You come off of this screaming audience of many, many thousands of people. I used to find it very weird. You have two choices. Either you can stay and pump flesh with hundreds of people after the show, which really gets old, or you can come off stage, get into the car, and go straight out the back and away, back to the hotel.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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